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Abstract:

Safety-critical mobile applications running on resource-constrained em-
bedded systems will play an increasingly important role in domains such as
automotive systems, space, robotics and avionics. Such applications are
composed of mobile autonomous components interacting spontaneously
without any infrastructure. Therefore, to undertake safety-critical mis-
sions, the applications will have to coordinate the behaviour of their com-
ponents in real-time, while overcoming the limitations of (ad hoc) wireless
communication. In this paper, we outline the key research challenges to
be addressed in order to achieve such real-time coordination.